Texline Tribune (Texline, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 23, 1932 Page: 2 of 8
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'iEXLINE TRIBUNE, TEXLINE, TEXAS
The House of the
Three Ganders
By Irving Bacl&ellcr
Copjrlcht by Irvine Bachellcr.
(WNU Service)
SYNOPSIS
Ragged and starving, n boy of about
Sixteen is befriended by u ramping
party. He has fled from bis brutal fa-
ther, Bat Morryson. The boy, Shad
(8heridan), I* sent to Canton, with n
letter to Colonel Blake. The colonel,
hla wife, and their daughter, Kuth. are
impressed by the boy’s manner. He
goes to work in the villnge of Amity
Lara, and meets a youth of his age,
"Bony,'' and Bumpy Brown, tinker,
considered a drunkard because of his
periodic lapses from strict sobriety.
Bat Morryson comes, determined to
taka his son back to his own dissolute
life. He Is overawed by Colonel Blake,
the district attorney, and his father
pusses out of Shad's life. A girl, young
and pretty, comes to Brown’s shack,
Inquiring for him. Shad applies him-
self diligently to his neglected educa-
tion. Love for Ruth Bluko takes n
strong hold on hlB heart. In an attack
made on the I’crry family. Oscar l’crry,
the father, and his daughter, Mrs. Iioo-
little, wife of Cyrus Doolittle, promi-
nent citizen, are shot and seriously
wounded. Circumstantial evidence
points to Bumpy Brown as the a>-sail-
nnt He is arrested. Shad loses his job,
and goes to live with Bony, nt Miss
Spenlow's. The two boys seek and find
disguises the murderer had worn. Col-
onel Blake is almost convinced Brown
1* not the murderer.
* CHAPTER V—Continued
“There's the greatest man I ever
knew,” said Bony. "lie's so gol’
durned smart an’ kind o' solemn I'm
always a little scairt when he talks
to me.”
"If it’s possible to love a man, I
love him," Shad answered, but Bony
never praised so lavishly.
In the morning the hoys set out on
the familiar road to Aslifleld. They
went behind Doty's barn and hack to
the highway. They searched the thick-
ets and culverts along that thorough-
fare. They came to a stone wall on
the east side of the highway. Slmd
took one side of the wall and Bony
the other. They looked into every
hole and crevice. They had surveyed
a long stretch of wall when Bony on
the side toward the fields shouted:
“Here it is!”
He leaped over the wall with the
colored handkerchief and a small,
light-colored slouch hat in his hand.
He held them up before him. There
were the eye-holes in the handker-
chief.
There was a touch of awe in the
excitement of the two boys. Shad
looked off at the river.
“This don't do Bumpy any good,”
he remarked. “His place is below
hero. He might have hid the hat and
the handkerchief and then cut across
to the river and got into his boat.”
“But he didn't. You forgit the man
In the broad brimmed hat. He was
seen away below here. I know it
ain’t the best place fer these tilings
to be hid, but we can’t help that.
Facts Is facts. The murderer went
on down the road, I tell ye.”
Bony put the hat and hnndkerchlef
In his coat pocket. They went on
down the rond. Bony suggested :
“Supposin’ they thought I had killed
Oscar Perry an’ they come an’ took
us up an’ found that hat an’ hnn’ker-
chief In my pocket. I couldn’t prove
no allerby. I was down settin’ on the
ol’ dam all ’lone studyin’ astronomy
an’ stealin’ a smoke. I heard the
shots. I didn’t stir ’cause I thought
Deacon Meriwether was out shootin'
at a 'coon in the his chicken yard. I
didn't come up to the store till I
heard the women bawlin’. I couldn’t
prove no allerby.”
“Well, it washes my hands. I left
the Daytons at Just five minutes of
seven by their clock.”
“Then I guess you better keep these
things,” snid Bony ns he passed them
to Shad.
They passed the Benson mansions
on their way Into town. They were
Just outside the village of Ashfield.
“You’re better dressed than I be,”
snid Bony. “On up an’ see if you can
find that hired girl. Tell 'em you're a
friend of ol* lumpy Brown, the tinker,
an’ that you’re tryin’ to help him. I'll
bet they know the ol’ man an’ his
bird.”
Shad dreaded the task but did not
hesitate. Such grandeur ns loomed
before him when he neared the lawns,
he had never seen. Shad considered
what he would say to those grand
people. He decided first to speak of
his friends, E. C. Converse and Col-
onel Blake. He went to the nearest
of the big houses and rang the bell at
Its front door. A servant opened It.
The boy asked for Mr. Benson. He
explained that he wished to see him
about Bumpy Brown. He was shown
to the library, where sat one of the
distinguished Benson brothers. Shad
trembled with awe when the man
arose and aited:
“Boy, whal can I do for you?”
The tone »f the man's voice was
reassuring Shad had learned that a
gentleman was welcome anywhere.
“My nan e Is Shad Morryson,” he
Paid as be sb'od bending the visor of
his cap in his nervous hands, “I am
a friend of E. 0. Converse, sir, and of
Colonel Blake.”
“Hood! I know them both. That
establishes your standing.”
Shad was getting better control of
his breath, lie made a new start.
“1 have been working in the store
up at Amity Dam. 1 know Bumpy
Brown. He has been arrested for the
murder of Oscar Perry. He is not
guilty, sir.”
"Good! I’d like to agree with you.
Give me your reasons.”
Mr. Benson was now deeply inter-
ested.
“1 met the guilty man in the road
that night. Two men saw him. lie
wore a broad-brimmed hat. He was
walking fast on the road to Ashfield.
lie hid this hat an’ han'kerehief in the
stone wall beside the road.”
Mr. Benson spread out {lie hand-
kerchief and carefully examined it.
"When did you find them?' he
asked.
"Today, sir.''
“You must give them to Colonel
Blake”
"Pm going to.”
“Until you see him, don’t show them
to anyone.”
Shad was now at the point ho
sought.
"1 hear that your hired girl met the
man down iu the road beyond your
gate."
Mr. Benson smiled as he rang a
hell on the table near him. The but-
ler came, llis master spoke:
“Tell ttie maid, Celestia More, to
come here."
A cheery-faced young Irish woman
came from the kitchen. She had been
visiting down near the bridge in tho
edge of the village, the evening of the
“He Passed Them on the Opposite
Side of the Road.”
murder. She started for home a little
after eight. It was dark and she wus
timid. Her friend came with her.
They entered the road beyond the turn
that leads to the village. A man ap-
proached them in the darkness. He
was walking fast. He passed them
on fhe opposite side of the road. He
was tall. He wore a cap. She and
her friend both agreed that he wore
a cap.
"A cap!” Shad exclaimed. “I see.
He was getting near the vMage. He
had the cap in his pocket. Up the
road within half a mile, we're going
to find the broad-brimmed hat. He
hid it somewhere."
Mr. Benson laughed.
"You’re a good-hearted boy and
rather level-headed. I wish you luck.
I have not been able to believe that
the old tinker was guilty."
Shad rejoined Bony who was wait-
ing for him on the road. Within an
hour tlie hoys had found the broad-
brimmed hat. It had been crowded
Into a hollow stump beside the rond
and was covered with rotten wood.
Elated, they hastened into the village.
“We'll go over to Canton and see
Colonel Blake,” Shad proposed.
They went to „ the Westminster
hotel and learned that the next train
going west left Jit six-forty. They
decided to telephone and learn If the
colonel were at home. They learned
that he had gone to Kildare pond
hunting. The pond was about live
miles back In the woods.
They went to a store. Shad got
some paper and twine and wrapped the
hats and handkerchief in a snug pack-
age and tied it to his belt.
“I'm hungry,” said Shad. “Let’s
get our suppers and walk home und
have a talk with the doctor.”
When they came out of the supper
room a number of men sat around the
fireplace. They were talking of the
murder at Amity Dam. Among them
were Robert Boyce, Ellery Anderson,
James Evarts, a commercial traveler,
the proprietor of the hotel and a
stranger of about thirty, rather shah
blly dressed. The strunger had red
hair, a freckled face and abnormally
large ears. Anderson had spoken of
the excellent work of the district attor-
ney in promptly solving the problem.
“The problem ain’t solved yet,” said
Ilony. “I happen to know that they’re
harking up Hie wrong tree.”
“Huh! You must be a rather smart
hoy," said the hotel man.
“No, but where there's so many that
do nil their work with their tongues
a feller that uses His brain once In a
while kind o’ stands out. The game
was put up on Bumpy Brown. He
was a drunken ol* pup of a man. No-
body supposed that ho had any
friends. He hated the Doolittles. He
lived all alone a mile from anybody
else. It would he hard fer him to
prove an allerby. The man that done
the shootin’ put on that limp. He
wore a slouch hat in Mr. Doolittle’s
house and a broad-brimmed hat when
lie was runnin’ away.”
With the rashness of youth Bony
told of the different points in the.road
where the man witli the broad-
brimmed hat laid been seen in the
darkness escaping toward Ashfield. A
mile below Amity Dam lie had hidden
(lie colored handkerchief which had
masked his face and the slouch hat
in a stone wall. Half a nolle out of
Ashfield lie shoved the broad-brimmed
hat in the hollow of an old stump and
put a cap on his head. In the edge
of the village he was wearing the cap.
Tense with interest, every one was
leaning forward in his chair gazing
at the boy. The landlord was first to
speak, asking:
“How do you know he hid the band
kerchief and the hats?”
“We found them today.”
“Where are they?”
“We’ve got 'em.”
“Lot us have a look at them.”
"Xo sir-ee. We ain't goin' to khow
’em to,nobody till we see the district
attorney. He's up at Kildare pond
huntin’ deer. One of us is goin’ up
there tomorrow to find him.”
They went out-of-doors and hast-
ened toward the bridge.
The tavern gossips of Ashfield had
something new to talk about. Mr.
Evarts said that he thought that the
hoy had told the truth. The drum-
mer was also of that opinion.
"He's a notorious young liar,” said
Robert Boyce. “There isn't a lazier
an’ more harum-scarum chap in this
county.”
In a few minutes he and Ellery An-
derson and the stranger arose and
put on their overcoats and went over
to the Kensington barroom.
When the boys arrived in Amity
Dam they saw a light in the study
windows of (tie doctor. They rang his
doorbell. The doctor gave them a
hearty welcome. They told him of
their success.
“We have made quite a step toward
the truth," said the doctor. “Shad
will go into the woods to take these
tilings to Colonel Blake tomorrow?”
“Yes, sir,” was Shad’s answer.
“I suggest that you leave those
things in my care," said the doctor.
“I want to take them with me,”
Shad answered.
“I advise against it, hut you are
entitled to have your way. It occurs
to me that Hubbard’s store has be-
come n point of some interest. There
you will remember Bumpy bought his
rubbers. I wonder if somebody had
learned of the exact shape and size
of the rubbers Bumpy had bought.
You know rubbers are rather accom-
modating. They stretch. Suggest to
the district attorney that he go to
Hubbard's store and find out, if he
can, who bought rubbers of that size
and shape on or before the tenth of
November. People do not forget
Bumpy’s calls. They'll he sure to re-
member all about the rubbers they
sold him.”
The doctor walked with the hoys
to Miss Spenlow’s house and left them
nt the door.
Miss Spenlow was n lady of un-
doubted probity. Her notion was that
the Flesh and the Devil were con-
quering the world. The wildness of
the quiet village of Amity Dam wor-
ried her. She was an active local
worker for the Home for tho Friend-
less in Aslifleld. She served on a
committee of the Home with one of
the Benson sisters. The Home and
the sayings of Miss Benson was the
main topic of her conversation.
Miss Spenlow was the only lady In
the village who took hoarders. She
had agreed to take Shad at four dol-
lars a week If he would sleep with
Bony “and promise to be a good hoy."
She rather enjoyed the mothering and
correcting and bullying of these two
boys. She was often threatening to
send them away, but would have wept
If they had left her. She had a curi-
ous Interest In their talk and per-
versity.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Salvage From Film*
At the end of the normal life of a
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CUNDAY I
Dchool Lesson
(By KEV. P. B. F1TZWATER. I> 1>.. Mem-
ber of Faculty, Moody Bible
institute of Cl.h UKo. >
_<©. 1932, Western Newspaper Union )
Lesson for June 26
REVIEW: WHAT WE HAVE
LEARNED FROM GENESIS.
GOLDEN TEXT—And we know that
all thinKU work together for good to
them that love God, to them who are
the called according to his purpose.
PRIMARY TOPIC—Some Friends We
Have Made.
JUNIOR TOPIC—What We Have
Learned In Genesis.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP-
IC—Favorite Characters in Genesis.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP-
IC—What Genesis Teaches About God
and Human Relationships.
Genesis, the hook from which tlie
lessons of the quarter are taken, as
its name indicates, is a hook of be-
ginnings. It contains the only re-
liable information we have of the
origin of the heavens and the earth,
plant and animal life, human life, in-
stitutions, and relations.
Lesson for April 3.
God was before all tilings. Every-
thing but God had a beginning. The
things which are carne to he by the
creative act of a personal God. Man
himself came into being by the crea-
tive act of God.
Lesson for April 10.
An explanation of the ills and sor-
rows of the world can be made Only
on the basis of the - historic fall of
man as recorded in the Bible. Man is
not what he was when he .dune from
the Creator’s hand. The prime actor
in this tragedy was the personal, cun-
ning, and malicious being called “the
Devil.” Because man is a free being,
possessing the power of choice, sin en-
tered through the act of man’s will in
believing the Devil instead of God.
Lesson for April 17.
Following man’s fall, God gave fhe
promise of a redeemer. God chose
Abraham to he the head of tlie new
race through which this gracious prom-
ise was to be realized. The failure
of this new race to carry out God’s
plan is the explanation of the dis-
ordered world.
Lesson for April 24.
I>ot’s prosperity was due to his
relationship to his uncle, Abram. In
spite of this fact, lie selfishly grasped
for the best? Abram, to'avert possible
strife between Lot and himself, ac-
corded to Lot ttie choice of the best of
the land. Though Lot’s choice in-
volved him in trouble, Abram gracious-
ly went to his rescue, delivering him
from liis oppressor, thus being a line
example of the art of living in pence.
Lesson for May 1.
Isaac was a child of the covenant,
gentle and peace-loving. Though n
lover of peace, he had enemies. His
very prosperity Incited the envy of
the Philistines. Ilis peaceable with-
drawal from them gave him increased
influence.
Lesson for May 8.
Esau sold his birthright for a howl
of pottage. The birthright was the
right of being at the head of the
patriarchal family. In a time of
physical exhaustion he relinquished
his claim to the future in order to
gratify a present desire.
Lesson for May 15.
Jacob’s scheming involved him In
trouble. On his flight from an out-
raged brother he was overtaken by
night and obliged to sleep in a field
with a stone for his pillow. It was
under such circumstances that God
gave him the vision at Bethel.
Lesson for May 22.
On Jacob's return to Canaan t'o
meet Esau, the Angel of the Lord
wrestled with him at the ford of
Jabhok. Jacob’s self-will needed to he
broken before he could enter Canaan.
He was humbled by the dislocation of
his thigh. When thus humbled, he quit
wrestling and clung to God. Jacob
did not get the blessing through
wrestling, hut because of his clinging
to God. It was easy for Jacob to he
reconciled to his brother because he
was now right with God.
Lesson for May 29.
Joseph was hated hy his brethren.
The father's favoritism fanned this
hatred Into a flame, and resulted in
his being sold into slavery.
Lesson for June 5.
Joseph’s success was not primarily
due to the fact that he was a good
worker, hut to the fact that the good
hand of his God was upon him. Jo-
soph was not a self-made, hut a God-
made man.
Lesson for June 12.
Though Joseph severely tested his
brethren, he graciously forgave them
and nourished them through the years
of famine. He knew that God had
sent him to be their deliverer.
Lesson for June 19.
I* old age after many years of sor-
row for the loss of Joseph, Jacob goes
to Egypt and Is there nourished
through the famine hy Joseph. After
Jacob's denth, Joseph continues his
gracious attitude to his brethren.
VENTILATE TO GET
COMFORT FOR HENS
Simple Methods of Admit-
ting Fresh Air.
Hens enjoy summer breezes hut the
fold, raw winds chill poultry as they
do persons. Yet tlie poltryman who
tries to make his liens comfortable hy
closing windows in tlie poultry house
only adds to Ids and their troubles, for
lie sooner or later gets a wet pen, says
Prof. F. L. Fairbanks of the New York
State College of Agriculture.
Ventilation should provide uir con-
ditions in the laying house which will
he comfortable and healthful. It may
not be possible to measure a hen's
comfort, but all good potiltrymen do
know when their flocks are contented,
lie says. In most poultry houses it is
possible, without expert labor, to im-
prove air conditions cheaply.
Most tops of windows or other open-
ings are from one to two feet below tlie
highest point In the ceiling. An open-
ing at the highest point approximately
one square foot for each 100 liens
set-ins enough to relieve tlie moisture
conditions. The air intakes should ho
near the floor, for then the,air has the
greatest distance to travel before it
reaches the opening ami more chance
to mix witli the air in the pen and
absorb and remove moisture given off
by the birds. The' bottom openings
should lie baffled to prevent drafts.
Systems of this type with the exit
at the highest point in the house, and
with baffled openings near the floor,
have been in use for several years and
sire giving satisfaction, Professor Fair-
j banks says.
Pays to Raise Broilers
for Special Marketing
Special broiler raising is the latest
development in the poultry business.
It came mainly ns a result of the dis-
covery that chickens can he raised on
a quantity basis with specinl equip-
ment and special feeding. Botii bat-
tery brooders and continuous hot wa-
ter brooding system- are employed in
raising broilers, as are also the colony
brooders.
The broiler raiser is not Interested
in breeding. He buys Ids baby chicks
from a breeder or a hateheryman and
when the birds have reached one and
a quarter pounds or two pound size,
he markets the pullets and cockerels
alike. In most cases the broiler raiser
lias a special market which he has de-
veloped. Most of them sell 1 heir broil-
ers dressed to a special trade.
There are a few things anybody who
contemplates geing Into the poultry
business should always keep in mind,
and they can be summed up in the
following sentence. Start moderately,
work hnrd, and be sure of a good man
ket.
Poultry House Floor
A cheap and very satisfactory typo
of poultry house floor can be made
by building the poultry house in the
usual way with the concrete founda-
tion Walls extending up about 12
inches above the ground surface. Then
tamp in firmly a layer of clayey soil,
then oil this thoroughly with used
crank case oil then tamp In another
layer of loose soil and again oil thor-
oughly, and continue this until the
floir is nt the desired height.
Tliis should then he covered with n
thin layer of gravel well tamped In,
and in this shape is warm and dry,
and has a firm enough crust so that
the fowls will not-scratch holes In it.
Later It can he covered with concrete,
the oiled enrth insuring warmth and
dryness.—Wisconsin Agriculturist.
Poultry Increases
Between 1019 and 1020, average pro-
j iluction of eggs on farms in the United
! States increased C3 per cent, accord-
ing to a report made by Wallace's
Farmer. The north-central states. In-
cluding Iowa, gained nt the rate of (15
per cent. Washington led with a gain
of 234 per cent, folowed hy Utah with
223 per cent and California with 149
per cent. Next In rate of Increase
were Massachusetts, Now Jersey and
Delaware.--—
Poultry Hints
Crippled chicks, malformations and
dwarfs have no place under any
brooder.
• • •
Clilcks hatched from hens laying
smnll eggs will not produce eggs that
top the market.
• • •
Symptoms of bronchitis are cough-
ing, sneezing, and rattling sounds In
the throat. This disease runs Its
course very rapidly, deaths being sud-
den.
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